Critical Survey on Cold Fusion: Aneutronic Chain Reactions or Collective Effects?

19 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2022

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Gleison Wagner Balduino

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Luciano Ondir Freire

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Dennis Pease

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Delvonei Alves de Andrade

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Abstract

After decades of research and intriguing observations, the cold fusion field still lacks a comprehensive model capable of explaining or predicting experimental results. Without proposing a specific theory, this work aims at narrowing down the search space to facilitate the creation of a workable model. The methodology we have used involved seven steps. The first step proposed that cold fusion is caused by either aneutronic chain reactions or by collective effects. The second step identified four different scenarios and considered their relative likelihood of being true or false. The third step identified the common characteristics, or “experimental facts”, found in various cold fusion laboratory tests. The fourth step attempted to predict the “experimental facts” by using each of the four scenarios and to identify for each scenario, the enabling conditions required to make each scenario true. The fifth step searched for confirmation of each enabling condition in the cold fusion literature. The sixth step used published experimental results to validate and evaluate the relative importance of each enabling condition. The seventh and final step ascertained the probability of each scenario being the proper explanation of cold fusion. Using the above seven step process in conjunction with most of the published cold fusion literature has resulted in the conclusion that chain reactions acting in conjunction with collective effects best describes a workable model for Cold Fusion and yields the best fit to published “experimental facts”. As a further aid in evaluating Cold Fusion results, we present a set of questions that can be used to channel future research and thereby make it more productive.

Keywords: Cold Fusion (CF), Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions (LANR), Lattice Confinement Fusion (LCF), Anomalous Heat Excess (AHE)

Suggested Citation

Balduino, Gleison Wagner and Freire, Luciano Ondir and Pease, Dennis and de Andrade, Delvonei Alves, Critical Survey on Cold Fusion: Aneutronic Chain Reactions or Collective Effects?. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4174104 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4174104

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Luciano Ondir Freire

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Dennis Pease

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Delvonei Alves De Andrade

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